Corner-tile for sheathing



(No Model.) 2 she ts-sheet 1.

G. H. BABO'OGK. CORNER TILE FOR SHEATHING.

No. 430,371. Patented June 17, 1890.

(No. Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

G. HQBABGQ K, CORNER TILE FOR SHEATHING.

N0.- 430 3'71. Patented June 1'7, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

GEORGE H. BABCOOK, OF PLAINFIELD, NEWV JERSEY.

CORNER-TILE FOR SHEATHI NG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,371, dated June 17, 1890.

Application filed November 23, 1889. Serial No. 331,320. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. BABCOOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corner-Tiles for Sheathing, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a corner-tile, showing the adaptation thereof to sheathingtiles of diamond character adjoining, looking edgewise to the plane of one of the sides of a right-angle corner. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan View of the corner-tile in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line m 00, Fig. 1,1ooking downward. Fig. 4 is an elevation, viewed as in Fig. 1, of a similar corner-tile having interlocking flanges to fit sheathing-tiles of a rectangular character. Fig. 5 is an inverted plan view of Fig. 4; and Fig. 6, a cross-section on the line y y of Fig. 4, looking downward.

My invention relates to clay or other tiles for sheathing corners of vertical surfaces or sides of a roof or building; and said invention consists of a tile adapted to interlock in vertical succession with similar tiles above and below and also to interlock with adjacent sheathing-tiles on the plane surfaces of the substructure, forming a continuous cover with weather-proof joints.

Referring to all of the figures, the plane surfaces B B of the corner-tiles A, which surfaces may be disposed at a right or any other angle relatively to each other, are joined preferably by a rounded corner 0, and the tile A is given a pitch or outward incline from the top thereof toward the bottom, so that the sides B lie in planes parallel to the planes of the tiles D or D, interlocking therewith.

The curvature of the corner 0 is therefore of greater radius at the bottom than at the top, giving a form thereto corresponding to a segment of a cone to which the plane surfaces 13' are tangent. The corner 0 may, however, be angular, the plane surfaces B extending to a line of intersection forming an edge.

a a are upward or outward flanges along the edges adjoining the apex of the cone and b b downward or inwardflanges along the edges adjoining the base of the cone, whereby the corner-tiles interlock or are supported vertically with relation to each other. In Fig. 1 the support is indirect, beingtransmitted through the interposed ends 0 of the flanges c of the adjacent tiles D D In each instance the flange b is of sufficient depth to fill and overlap the space at the adjacent ends of the corner-tiles, avoiding the use of cement filling to form a tight joint.

a a are upward or outward flanges and I) b downward or inward flanges,'which interlock, respectively, with similar flanges d and c of the tiles D or D.

As examples of the adaptation of the cornertiles to sheathing-tiles of different characters.

gular interlocking-tile, such as described in my separate patent application filed No vember 13, 1889, No. 330,226. It is obvious that the periphery of the corner-tile is otherwise capable of variation to correspond withv various characters of sheathing-tiles to be used without departing from the essential features of my invention.

Therefore what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with sheathing-tiles, a corner-tile of corresponding form bent at an angle, whereby it unites tiles on either side thereof, and with means, as flanges, whereby it interlocks with similar tiles above and below and forms a storm and wind tight covering for a corner, substantially as described.

2. In combination with sheathing-tiles, a corner-tile of corresponding form bent at an angle and with flanges, whereby it interlocks with the tiles on either side thereof and with an upward flange at one end and adownward flange at the other, whereby it interlocks with tiles similar to itself above and below and forms with the sheathing-tiles a wind and storm tight corner, substantially as specified.

periphery, and inward flanges on another portion of its periphery, substantially as shown.

5. A corner-tile having the following elements: two plane surfaces tangent to a cone, outward flanges along the edges adjoining the apex of the cone, and inward flanges along the edges adjoining the base of the cone, substantially as specified.

(i. In combination with sheathing-tiles, a corner-tile having two plane surfaces or wings tangent to a cone, by a segment of which they are united, said plane surfaces or wings corresponding in form to the one-half pattern of 20 a sheathing-tile as divided by a vertical axis.

GEO. H. BABCOCK. Witnesses:

CHAS. W. FORBES, H. F. PARKER. 

